On 7 July 2005, Britain suffered its first ever suicide attack. Four young British-born Muslims, apparently well-educated and from integrated backgrounds, killed their fellow citizens, including other Muslims. The incident raised the vision that British Muslims would be seen as the ‘enemy within’ and a ‘fifth column’ in British society. To examine how this view emerged, this thesis investigates the representation of British Muslims in two major British broadsheets, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, over a two-year period (7 July 2005-8 July 2007). A corpus of 274 news items, including editorials, comments, interviews, and news reports on the London bombings, has been collected and analysed using the inductive approach based upon thematic analysis. The thesis asks a significant question: How did these broadsheets present British Muslims in the wake of the London bombings? This thesis aims to present a narrative of how the London bombings (hereafter 7/7) emerged in these broadsheets based on their reaction to an interpretation and perception of the 7/7 event. This research indicates that the two broadsheets shared a similar cultural approach in combating Islamist terrorism, by encouraging the embracing of British values, although their different political orientations led to them differing attitudes over the precise manner in which this should be achieved. The Guardian was more concerned about individual liberty and human rights, while The Daily Telegraph emphasised the adaptation of tough legislation to combat terrorism. Given modern Britain’s secular moral fibre, the supremacy of British values dominated the debates on British Muslims which somehow reflected a manifestation of a systematic campaign to redefine Islam as a religion that fits into secular Western society, validating terms such as ‘Moderate Muslim’, ‘Islamic terrorists’, ‘Islamic extremists’, ‘Islamic militants’ and ‘Islamic terrorism’. Although both newspapers argue that radicalisation is a foreign-imported dilemma that has its roots in “Islamic ideology”, they differ in their attitudes on how to deal with it. This thesis uses Cohen’s (1972) text, which suggests that the media often portray certain groups within society as “deviant” and “folk devils” and blames them for crimes. This research into the reactions of two broadsheets permits a contemporary discussion of the London bombings and British Muslims in the light of Cohen’s concept. It aims to locate the presence of a nexus of the four Ps - political parties, pressure groups, the press, and public bodies - that influence reporting and shape the debates (Ost, 2002; Chas, 2006, p.75). It is evident that the reporting of the two broadsheets blends three significant components: the views of self-proclaimed Islamic scholars, experts and hate preachers; the use of out-of-context verses of the Quran; and the use of political language to represent British Muslims. Arguably, the press transformed the 7/7 event, suggesting that it was driven by religious theology rather than being a politically motivated act.

Submitted by Israel Vieira Neto (israel.vieiraneto@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-04T17:42:51Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação Mariucha Maria Correia de Lima.pdf: 4785343 bytes, checksum: cd83f7891d737e99a1a6dd95824c7f98 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T17:42:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação Mariucha Maria Correia de Lima.pdf: 4785343 bytes, checksum: cd83f7891d737e99a1a6dd95824c7f98 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-20 / Os complexos Araticum (CARAT) e Arapiraca (CARAP) localizam-se no Estado de Alagoas, Nordeste Brasileiro, numa região que engloba o Município de Major Isidoro e distritos. Ambos os complexos situam-se no Cinturão de dobramentos Sergipano, numa área limitada pela zona de cisalhamento transpressional Jacaré dos Homens (ZCJH), ao Sul do Domínio Pernambuco-Alagoas, entre as coordenadas 9°29'35" e 9°34'56"de latitude sul e os meridianos 36°48'48" e 36°59'46" de longitude oeste da linha de Greenwich. Os CARAT e CARAP na área estudada são constituídos por paragnaisses e xistos, intercalados com anfibolitos, leucogranitos e, apenas no CARAT, subordinamente, por mármores e rochas calciossilicáticas. A deformação principal dessas rochas, marcada pelas foliações Sn e Sn+1 foi originada pela ZCJH. Observações de campo e petrográficas indicam um metamorfismo na fácies xisto verde – anfibolito alto (anfibólio + granada + biotita + muscovita + plagioclásio + sillimanita) para os paragnaisses do CARAT e CARAP. A assembleia mineral dos anfibolitos (anfibólio + granada + clinopiroxênio + ortopiroxênio + titanita) é característica da fácies anfibolito alto a granulito, com retrometamorfismo para anfibolito médio com a substituição de piroxênio por anfibólio. Os dados litoquímicos e isotópicos nos permite inferir os protólitos dos paragnaisses de ambos os complexos como grauvacas com intercalações de pelitos, com proveniência a partir de fontes ácidas a intermediárias. Os ETR mostram concentrações consistentes entre si e com os padrões, o que evidencia a relativa imobilidade dos ETR durante o metamorfismo. Os leucogranitos peraluminosos foram caracterizados como produto de fusão parcial de rochas metassedimentares, ou seja, como granitos do tipo-S. Os anfibolitos do CARAT e CARAP têm como protólito basaltos de assinatura toleítica, com padrão de ETR semelhante aos basaltos do tipo E-MORB. O leucogranito do CARAT apresenta uma idade modelo (TDM) de 2,2 Ga, com valores de εNd(640 Ma) (-10) negativo, e razões Sr87/Sr86> 0,708, características de granitos tipo-S. No entanto o leucogranito do CARAP apresenta uma idade modelo (TDM) de 2,9 Ga e εNd(640 Ma) fortemente negativo (-30). Uma amostra de anfibolito do CARAT analisada para Sm-Nd apresenta idade modelo (TDM) de 700 Ma e εNd (640 Ma) positivo (+4,95) indicativo de contribuição mantélica. Os dados U-Pb obtidos para ortognaisse adjacente ao Complexo Araticum limitado pela ZCJH indicam uma idade de 642,4 ± 3,4 Ma, que é interpretada como idade de cristalização e de ativação da zona de cisalhamento. Dados obtidos em leucossoma do CARAP indicam idades ~760 Ma, que inicialmente não parecem ter algum significado geológico, tendo em vista que o único dado disponível na literatura sobre o Cinturão de Dobramentos Sergipano para idades próximas a esta é de idade de cristalização do granito tipo Garrote de 715 Ma. Tectonicamente as rochas metassedimentares clásticas do CARAT e CARAP representam sequências sedimentares de arco magmático, caracterizadas por diagramas discriminantes tectônicos. Adicionalmente, os leucogranitos e anfibolitos também indicam ambientes sin-colisionais e de arco de ilha, confirmando o ambiente tectônico como um Arco magmático ou Margem Ativa.

This thesis examines topographical art depicting Scotland’s natural scenery and built environments, architecture, antiquities and signs of modern improvement, made during the period 1660 to 1820. It sets out to demonstrate that topography and topographical art was not exclusively antiquarian in nature, but ranged across various fields of learning and practice. It included the work of artists, geographers, cartographers, travel writers, poets, landscape gardeners, military surveyors, naturalists and historians who were concerned with representing the country’s varied, and often contentious, histories within an increasingly modernising present. The visual images that are considered here were forms of knowledge that found expression in drawings, paintings and engravings, elevations, views and plans. They were made on military surveys and picturesque tours, and were often intended to be included alongside written texts, both published and unpublished, frequently connecting with travels, tours, memoirs, essays and correspondence. It will also be argued that topography was a social practice, involving networks of artists, collectors, publishers and writers, who exchanged information in drawings and letters in a nationwide, and often increasingly commercial enterprise. This thesis will explore some of the strands of such a vast network of picture-making that existed in Scotland, and Britain, between 1660 and 1820, as visual images were circulated, copied, recycled and adapted, and topographical and antiquarian visual culture emerges as a complex, synoptic form of inquiry.

This thesis examines the early stages of the transformation of emblematic political prints into political caricature from the beginning of the Seven Years' War (1756) to the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War (1783). Both contextual and iconographical issues are investigated in relation to the debates occasioned by Britain's imperial project, which marked a period of dramatic expansion during the Seven Years' War, and ended with the loss of the American colonies, consequently framing this thesis as a study of political prints during the rise and fall of the so-called 'First British Empire'. Previous studies of eighteenth-century political prints have largely ignored the complex and lengthy evolutionary process by which the emblematic mode amalgamated with caricatural representation, and have consequently concluded that political prints excluded emblems entirely by the end of the 1770s. However, this study emphasizes the significance of the Wilkite movement for the promotion and preservation of emblems, and investigates how pictorial political argument was perceived and received in eighteenth-century British society, arguing that wider tastes and opinions regarding the utilization of political prints gradually shifted to accept both modes of representation. Moreover, the marketplace, legal status, topicality, and manufacturing methods of political prints are analyzed in terms of understanding the precarious nature of their consumption and those that endeavoured to engage in political printmaking. The evolution, establishment, and subsequent appropriation of pictorial tropes is discussed from the early modern period to the beginning of the so-called Golden Age of caricature, while tracing the adaptation of representational models in American colonial prints that employed emblems already entrenched in British pictorial political debate. Political prints from the two largest print collections, the British Museum and the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale are consulted, along with a number of eighteenth-century newspapers and periodicals, to develop the earlier research by M. Dorothy George, Charles Press, Herbert Atherton, Diana Donald, Amelia Rauser, and Eirwen Nicholson.

No Trifling With Love, a new adaptation by Frank Canino of Alfred de Musset's 19th Century French play, was produced and directed by Adrienne Wintermans, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in the Department of Theatre of the University of British Columbia, at the Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre, from November 20 to 23rd, 1968. The following is a detailed record of that production, together with the director's analysis and interpretation of the script. No Trifling With Love was performed by a predominantly student cast, in costumes and setting designed by Michelle Bjornson, with choreography by Richard Blackhurst and with original music composed and arranged by Jim Colby and played by three musicians employing flute, piano, guitar and percussion instruments. This record is divided into three main sections. The first is an essay in five parts, consisting respectively of: the biographical and historical background of the playwright and the play; the literary influences found in On ne badine pas avec l'amour; a comparison of the adaptation used for this production with previous translations of the play; an analysis of No Trifling With Love in this adaptation; and finally a short section setting forth as simply as possible, the specific directorial concept used for this production. The essay is followed by a short bibliography which is not intended as a complete list of the works on or by de Musset, but gives an indication of those which were taken into consideration during the preparation of this production. The second section is made up of the prompt script of the production, showing the division of the play into units, blocking, and music, lighting and scenery cues. The script is followed by a unit by unit analysis of each scene, briefly discussing the directorial approach taken in terms of purpose, action, motivation, dominant emotions, character dominance and particular difficulties involved. The third section is made up of various tables, records and illustrations relating directly to the production. Included are lists of light cues, set changes, property and costume lists, cost lists and box office reports. Also included are transcripts of the music composed for the production samples of the programme and copies of the press reviews. The illustrations include colour photographs of the production, renderings of the sets, costumes and projections, and finally blue-prints of the floor plan and working drawings. / Arts, Faculty of / Theatre and Film, Department of / Graduate

Uppsatsen utreder om RB 30 kap 9 § uppfyller kraven i EU:s stadga om de grundläggande rättigheterna artikel 50 och Tillämpningskonventionen till Schengenavtalet artikel 54 avseende tre aspekter av ne bis in idem: kravet på slutgiltig prövning, kravet på straffrättslig karaktär samt kravet på samma gärningsidentitet. Svensk rätt har ej allmängiltiga kriterier för prövningars slutgiltighet men generellt är beslut som avslutar straffrättsliga förfaranden ej slutgiltigt förutom vid domstols dom. I EU-rätt har begreppet ’slutgiltig’ en autonom betydelse som utgår från beslutets slutgiltighet enligt den nationella rättsordningen det härrör ifrån, i vilken mån beslutet grundats på en prövning i sak samt uttömmandet av ordinära nationella rättsmedel. Svensk rätt uppfyller de EU-rättsliga kraven avseende beslut om nedläggning av förundersökning, åtalsunderlåtelse, strafföreläggande och domstols dom men ett riskområde kan identifieras avseende beslut som ej är slutgiltiga enligt svensk rätt men som i hög grad baseras på prövning i sak: negativa åtalsbeslut och beslut om nedläggning av åtal. Detta med hänsyn till att EU-domstolens extensiva tolkning av vad som är extraordinärt rättsmedel sannolikt omfattar återupptagande av straffrättslig förfarande efter någon av dessa två beslut. Ne bis in idem i EU-rätten förbjuder multipla prövningar av straffrättslig karaktär och kräver att medlemsstaterna vid tillämpning av multipla prövningar av samma gärning gör en bedömning av prövningarnas karaktär utifrån: överträdelsens kvalificering och art samt art och stränghet i den sanktion kan åläggas. Enligt kriterierna var skattetillägg att bedöma som en straffrättslig prövning som ej kunde kombineras med prövning av skattebrott – svensk rätt anpassades härtill 2013. Sedan dess har möjlighet att bedöma flera prövningar som en sådan vid tillräckligt nära samband utvecklats i EU‑praxis varför svensk rätt åter skulle kunna nyttja multipla prövningar. Bedömning av gärningsidentitet görs i svensk rätt utifrån varierande kriterier: de yttre omständigheterna tid och rum, vilka skyddsobjekt gärningsmomenten inskränker eller den obrutna förfogandekedjan över viss egendom. EU-rätten tillämpar istället exklusivt de yttre omständigheterna samt deras syfte. Bedömningen enligt dessa kriterier motsvarar ej bedömning som görs enligt kriterierna skyddsobjekt eller obruten förfogandekedja men medlemsstaterna kan tillämpa andra kriterier förutsatt att minimiskyddsnivån upprätthålls. Fortsatt tillämpning av andra kriterier borde därför kombineras med en prövning av gärningsidentiteten enligt de yttre omständigheterna.

The Diploma thesis "The Rise and Fall of New Labour: A Political Ideology or a Just a Trend?" focuses on the analysis of a British political course called New Labour. The research focuses on internal and external factors that had allowed this ideology to dominate the British politics over the last 13 years under the established brand of Labour Party. This thesis constitutes a comparative case study, based on the theoretical assumption of time, as well as economic and social constrains of the New Labour phenomenon. The circumstances which back in 1997 allowed the election triumph of New Labour, are often similar to those, that let to its decline a decade later, amid the new social, economic and political climate, caused its decline. This hypothesis is confronted with a secondary research based on the evaluation of broader economic, social and political influences. While the study has proved the validity of the New Labour idea in times of favorable economic and political circumstances, such as the combination of divided opposition and economic boom, it has also shown its failure in the times of economic downturn. Although the vision of New Labour was rejected by the current Labour Party, research and the governing coalition prove that the ideology can successfully operate in combination with...

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This thesis analyzes why people volunteer in two counties of East Tennessee. The study describes the concept of volunteering and its positive impact upon society on a regional and national level. The characteristics of people who volunteer, why people choose to volunteer, and the significance of their volunteering were assessed through a survey questionnaire. The survey questionnaire was administered in Carter County (Elizabethton) and Washington County (Johnson City) Tennessee to 13 charitable and non-charitable agencies that utilize volunteers aged 18 years and over. Out of 243 survey questionnaires distributed in Elizabethton and Johnson City, Tennessee, 124 individuals responded. Data collected in the areas were analyzed to determine how the region related to national profiles of those who volunteer. The data collected revealed reasons why people in this section of the mountains of East Tennessee volunteer and helped identify the characteristics of those who volunteer.

Quanti (e quali) sono i criteri risolutivi in tema di concorso apparente di norme? Questa è la domanda che più comunemente ci si pone nell’approcciare l’ostico terreno della convergenza di fattispecie. Il lavoro che si presenta muove invece da una differente, seppur intimamente connessa, prospettiva: quali sono, a monte, i principi regolatori del concorso apparente di norme e del concorso formale di reati? Solo in un secondo momento, dalla ricognizione di questi, si potrà procedere a fornire una risposta alla prima questione. Pertanto, si è posta attenzione al divieto sostanziale di bis in idem, nonché ai possibili riferimenti normativi, costituzionali e sovranazionali, idonei a legittimarne l’esistenza nell’ordinamento giuridico italiano. Il metodo d’indagine prescelto si sviluppa pertanto su due diverse direttive: da un lato, la comparazione con l’ordinamento tedesco, che presenta premesse dogmatiche ampiamente sovrapponibili a quelle poste dalla scienza penalistica italiana, seppur rimanendo caratterizzato da talune peculiarità che rendono estremamente proficua un’indagine sul tema (su tutte, la presenza di un generale divieto di doppia punizione, Doppelbestrafungsverbot, nella Carta costituzionale tedesca, in relazione al quale manca uno speculare referente in quella italiana). Dall’altro, una ricognizione della più recente giurisprudenza convenzionale ed eurounitaria in tema di ne bis in idem processuale, nonché dei rapporti fra questo ed il principio di proporzionalità fra fatto e sanzione. Su entrambi i versanti la tradizionale collocazione della preclusione sul piano processuale cede oggi parzialmente il passo a considerazioni di stampo valoriale, che portano ad interrogarsi sulla necessità di elaborare un autonomo divieto di ne bis in idem agente sul terreno del diritto penale sostanziale. Preclusione, questa, della quale si rende infine necessario analizzare i risvolti applicativi, tanto sul terreno del concorso apparente di norme, quanto su quello del concorso formale di reati. È in quest’ultimo senso, cioè in relazione ai rapporti fra i principi costituzionali ed i fenomeni di convergenza di fattispecie, che ci si muove nella presente indagine.